Enhancement: Support shared access to systems

[Paul Michali]

Binary package hint: vinagre

Whenever a VNC connection is made to the server, this client will boot out any other client that is connected. There is no option to start a VNC connection in "shared" mode, as supported by other VNC clients.

It would be very useful to support this capability so people to have shared access to a VNC server.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: vinagre 2.30.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 17 07:55:38 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
LocalLibraries: /usr/local/lib/libgtk-vnc-1.0.so.0.0.1 /usr/local/lib/libgvnc-1.0.so.0.0.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: vinagre
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1698): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nm-applet:1707): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_thaw_toplevel_updates_libgtk_only: assertion `private->update_and_descendants_freeze_count > 0' failed

[Javier Moreno (elpasmo)]

Vinagre actually support VNC shared connections.

[Alroger Filho (alroger-cafe-ti)]

Why status Invalid?

ElPasmo, how do we activate shared connections, if it does support it?

[Alroger Filho (alroger-filho)]

Ahh, vinagre works without disconnecting others in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Beta. Nice.

[Alroger Filho (alroger-filho)]

Btw, there is a "shared_flag" set to true in gconf-editor apps/vinagre in this version. I don' t remember seeing that for the old Maverick version, but might help to add it, in any case.